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Title: British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1881 (1880s)
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Subjects: Painters -- Great Britain Painting -- Great Britain
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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he next following )^ear there were in the same gallery two pictures,respectively entitled The Portico of a Roman Theatre and A RomanLady returning from making Purchases : striking as these paintingsare, and novel as were the subjects at that time, they attracted but littleattention comparatively from contemporary critics, as if they did not quiteunderstand a style of Art which seemed to have been resuscitated fromthe dead past of two thousand years ago. But the time was rapidlyapproaching when the painters works were to force themselves into notice. Tibulluss Visit to Delia has the merit of being a study and feast forthe antiquary, so careful and true are the restorations. The pigments area little opaque, as if the artist had carried in his mind the ancient practiceof tempera. Yet does the painter put forth the full power of his palette,and through contrasts and harmonies gain marvellous results. In thesame gallery he exhibited the year following three pictures, of which A TO NEW YORK
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THE CONVALESCEXT.From a Painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadem r, R.A. A L MA - TA D E M A. »37 Roman Dance is probably the most characteristic expression of the artistsgenius. Tarquinius Superbus, in the International Fine Art Exhibitionheld at Leeds in 1868, was also exhibited at Munich in 1869. Hitherto Mr. Alma-Tadema had made no appearance in our RoyalAcademy, although, in 1868, he had painted a picture which he hopedmight find admittance there; it was, however, bought prior to the time ofreceiving works for exhibition, by a gentleman who declined to part with itfor the purpose desired by the artist; and as no stipulation had beenentered into by the latter when he sold it, he was compelled to submit tothe disappointment. The picture in question was Phidias at work inthe Parthenon. In 1869 Mr. Alma-Tadema was for the first time represented at theAcademy, and by two pictures, Un Amateur Remain and Une DansePyrrhique; the former showing the interior of a dwelling inhabited by acitizen of

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